Now You’re Thinking: Change Your Thinking... Transform Your Life
by John Maketa, Heather Ishikawa, Russ Hall, Stewart Emery, Judy Chartrand, Richard
Better Your Life (Collection)
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living Through Critical Thinking: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life, Revised and Expanded
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- More on What People Say About the 30 Days Book...
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Improve Your Thinking, Improve Your Life
- Can Your Thinking Be Your Problem?
- A How-To List for Dysfunctional Living
- Take Your Thinking Seriously
- No Intellectual Pain, No Intellectual Gain
- The Concepts, Principles, and Tools of Critical Thinking
- Why Critical Thinking?
- The Figuring Mind
- Analyze Your Thinking (Focusing on the Elements of Reasoning)
- Assess Your Thinking (Using Reasonable Standards)
- Systematically Apply Intellectual Standards to the Elements of Reasoning to Develop Intellectual Traits
- Pursue the Constellation of Intellectual Traits
- Understand the Mind’s Three Distinctive Functions
- Recognize Thinking as the Key to Feelings and Desires
- Distinguish Rational from Egocentric and Sociocentric Thoughts
- Understand Egocentric Thinking as a Problem
- Distinguish Egocentric Domination from Egocentric Submission
- Understand Sociocentric Thinking as a Problem
- A Substantive Approach to Critical Thinking Targets
- The Thirty-Day Plan
- Tips for Internalizing Each Idea
- Planning and Logging Your Progress
- Day One. Discover Your Ignorance
- Day Two. Strive to Be a Person of Integrity: Beware of Your Own Hypocrisy
- Day Three. Empathize with Others
- Day Four. Deliberately Target Your Purposes
- Day Five. Don’t Be a Conformist: Think for Yourself
- Day Six. Clarify Your Thinking
- Day Seven. Be Relevant: Stick to the Point
- Day Eight. Be Reasonable
- Day Nine. Ask Deep Questions
- Day Ten. Distinguish Among Questions of Fact, Preference, and Judgment
- Day Eleven. Think Through Implications
- Day Twelve. Distinguish Inferences from Assumptions
- Day Thirteen. Don’t Be Fooled by the Words People Use: Look Underneath Words to Unspoken Realities
- Day Fourteen. When You Think You Have Arrived as a Critical Thinker, Think Again
- Day Fifteen. Be Fair, Not Selfish
- Day Sixteen. Get Control of Your Emotions
- Day Seventeen. Take Control of Your Desires
- Day Eighteen. Don’t Dominate Others: Don’t Be a Top Dog
- Day Nineteen. Don’t Be Submissive; Don’t Be an Underdog
- Day Twenty. Don’t Be Brainwashed by the News Media
- Day Twenty-One. Carefully Choose the Ideas You Take in from Television, Ads, Movies, and the Internet
- Day Twenty-Two. Don’t Be Bamboozled by Politicians
- Day Twenty-Three. Don’t Be a Blamer
- Day Twenty-Four. Don’t Be Righteous: Show Mercy
- Day Twenty-Five. Vow to Spend No Time Worrying
- Day Twenty-Six. Be a Citizen of the World
- Day Twenty-Seven. Do Something, Anything, to Help Make the World Better
- Day Twenty-Eight. See Your Development Occurring in Stages
- Day Twenty-Nine. Educate Yourself
- Day Thirty. Figure Out Where to Go from Here
- Reading Backwards
- Recommended Readings to Augment the Strategies
- Appendix. Glossary of Terms
- Index
- FT Press
- Now You’re Thinking: Change Your Thinking... Transform Your Life
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Praise for Now You’re Thinking!
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Amenah’s Story
- Chapter 1. How Your Mind Works—Some Assembly Required
- Chapter 2. A New Way of Thinking
- Chapter 3. Take Stock of Your Style
- Chapter 4. Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life
- Appendix A. Characters
- Appendix B. Cognitive Biases: Common Mental Mind Traps
- Appendix C. Resources
- Index
- FT Press
Now You’re Thinking
Change Your Thinking...
Transform Your Life
Judy Chartrand
Stewart Emery
Russ Hall
Heather Ishikawa
John Maketa
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